Akron Art Museum

The Akron Art Museum, located just down the road from Pure Buttons in Akron, Ohio, uses custom buttons, magnets, stickers, and packaged sticker products to support exhibitions, reward visitors, and create affordable gift shop merchandise. Their orders are a great example of how museums and cultural organizations can turn exhibit artwork into memorable, low-cost souvenirs.

"Ordering and reviewing is super easy..."

We spoke with the museum's marketing manager about how Akron Art Museum uses our custom merch throughout its exhibitions and gift shop: "My experience with Pure Buttons has been great. Ordering and reviewing is super easy, customer service has been right there to help me when I've needed it, they even caught a mistake in one of my orders."

We pride ourselves on our unmatched customer service at every step of the process, from ordering to art help, our friendly team is here to make sure your custom buttons and other products are produced at the highest quality possible.

Akron Art Museum rotates several different exhibitions throughout the year and often designs unique buttons to complement the current exhibition. Recently, we produced a batch of 1" Round Custom Buttons for an exhibition titled Michelangelo Lovelace: Art Saved My Life (Seen Above). When you visit the exhibition at the museum, they offer the souvenir button free to all guests! One-inch pinback buttons are a cost-effective way to offer a fully custom souvenir, with bulk pricing as low as $0.21 each.

"...a cool button collection every year."

"With every event and exhibition, we create a souvenir button that our guests can obtain when visiting the Akron Art Museum. If you come to everything, you'll end up with a cool button collection every year. We've done this for our Eclipse Party, Member Events, and art exhibitions."

What a great idea to encourage repeat visitors and reward members for continuing to engage with the museum!

Pure Buttons offers gift shop merchandise beyond buttons like souvenir magnets, custom button packs, acrylic keychains, and more. Whether you need casual souvenirs like stickers or retail-ready gift shop items with professional packaging like custom sticker packs, we are your one stop shop!

We recently stopped by the Akron Art Museum Gift Shop to capture some custom souvenir magnets on display for purchase, as well as some excellent sticker sheets in retail sticker pack packaging for their show Kent Monkman: History is Painted by the Victors (seen above). These affordable souvenirs let patrons bring home a piece of the exhibition, and they are produced locally by Pure Buttons.

Planning merch for a museum, gallery, school, nonprofit, or cultural event? Pure Buttons can help turn your artwork into attractive retail products that are easy to sell, share, and collect.